Thanks RA nearly gave myself away!!!
I'm a senior engineer in MoD and people in the know should be able to have a good guess at who I am from that. The fact that this is still such a touchy subject is fairly telling in itself. Like I said, I have my own opinions i.e. staff, both internal and external are increasingly risk averse and/or scared to death to take on any airworthiness responsibility.
But seriously folks, if you don't wanna talk it's fine. It really was just an impulsive attempt to gain some genuine feedback
